Links

Got some links I wanna share... no reason for it though.

Penny Arcade
PVP Online
Megatokyo
... (This one doesn't open for me for some reason)

Here's some good news while we're on the subject. Slackware 10.0 hit a couple days ago. I would be creaming my geek shorts right now, but Patrick (we're on a first name basis here) decided the 2.6 kernel should wait... as should gcc 3.4.0 (which is pretty much the coolest thing to happen with gcc since the 2.95 line). You can still get them going via the /testing packages, but I'd prefer them as defaults. Oh well, perfect is a bit much to ask.

I ended up getting my free Athlon XP 3000 the other day. It's not what I'd hoped for (but it was free, so I'm sure not going to piss myself about it). I had a 2600 previously and they seem to perform about the same. The 3000 runs at 2.16Ghz, which is only 80Mhz more than the 2600 at 2.08Ghz, so it's not really much of a surprise. I think the biggest thing my current PC needs is another stick of DDR to get me running dual channel.

I actually learned a bit about how all this hardware stuff works internally in my computer architecture class this last semester... but most of it seems to have slipped out already, so I can't post much about it. What I do remember, however, is the rule of shrinkage. As the semi-conductor technology makes it possible to put smaller logic on the chips, space opens up. So why does this matter, aside from it being the reason we now have both L1 and L2 cache as well as the floating point logic on-die? Dual core processors! And it looks like AMD is going to drop their first one next year. Now if that doesn't get your spider-sense tingling... well... I sure don't know what will.